Reply #4: But let's not forget [View All]

[PATRICK]

the Lion of Idaho, Republican Senator and presidential candidate William Edgar Borah whose "strange innocence" was highlighted by the 1939 quote.

Specifically, the Lion roars:

"Lord" Typical hypocritical GOp invocation of the deity implying a personally favored influence
if only I" Continuing the arrogant egotism.
"had talked with Hitler" Why didn't he ask my permission(Sounds familiar and oddly belated as with hussein's surprise attack against Kuwait)
"wouldn't have invaded Poland." In light of the above perhaps it something a bit more than "strange innocence"(Borah was an RNC official who helped doom the League of Nations) and more like co-opting defensive GOP bombast.

It sounds more like the GOP religious hypocrisy of today, the isolationist sentiment Bill Clinton met with and that curious close relationship not only with the maker but with the dictator(post famous picture of Rummy shaking hands with Hussein here)


The quote is utterly consistent GOP message exploitation, namely making sure no one is protected here and abroad whatever the iron stand of the day against the Democrats happens to be and that disaster happens that can emotionally exploit but otherwise do NOTHING really positive about.

And we haven't even gotten to how the invasion of Poland compares to the invasion of Iraq.